‘Dunkirk’: How the British and German media received the 2017 film

Transformed from what Churchill described as a ‘disastrous defeat’ into a ‘miracle of deliverance’, Dunkirk holds a semi-sacred place in Britain’s collective conscience and DNA. However, given claims Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’ lacks the usual heroic pathos and represents every defeated army, this talk asks what the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ means today.